Coupon Queen

December 17, 2009

I come from a long line of frugal. My mom sewed my clothes and Halloween costumes growing up. My dad’s been known to show up at flea markets with a flashlight. And it took me years to figure out that when my grandpa said he found something at the “emporium”, he was actually referring to [...]

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Vegploitation

December 9, 2009

You’ve probably heard the term “Mindful Eating“. It’s the practice of paying close attention to your hunger cues, savoring your food–and of course, stopping when you’re full, not when your plate is clean or the jumbo box of Cheez-Its is empty.
But sometimes mindful eating is hard. Sometimes it seems a little, well, impossible. Especially with [...]

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Try, Try Again (and Again and Again…)

December 2, 2009

If you’ve read anything about picky eaters, you’ve read this: It can take up to twenty exposures to a new food before a child will try it—much less like it. But the unfortunate truth is that it may take even longer. And your child may never, ever like it.
I don’t mean to be a downer, [...]

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Lines in the Sand

November 23, 2009

Cloth or disposable, breast or bottle, attachment parenting or cry-it-out. When you become a mother, they’re some of the Big Choices you’re faced with right off the bat. But even when you’re past the baby stage—when your Diaper Champ can no longer contain the stinkiness and everyone is (kind of, sort of, almost) sleeping through [...]

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Photo Finish

November 18, 2009

One of my favorite blogs is Self magazine’s Eat Like Me. Cristin Dillon-Jones, a registered dietitian and working mom, posts a photo of everything she eats: meals, snacks, lattes in the car, everything. I love it because she eats real portions of real food—and makes the super-nutritious diet she eats seem both delicious and doable. And [...]

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One fish, two fish, red fish, green fish

October 21, 2009

As a child of the 70s in landlocked Western Pennsylvania, I didn’t eat a lot of fish. (Let me clarify: I ate tuna from a can. A lot of tuna from a can. I may have been an infamously drive-my-mother-to-tears picky eater, but I would happily scarf down a big bowl of egg noodles [...]

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Pie for Dinner

June 16, 2009

On a recent episode of the “Today” show, Dr. Nancy Syderman was debunking diet myths (and promoting her book, Diet Myths That Keep Us Fat). She talked about some of the usual stuff, like how white foods such as potatoes and bananas aren’t the enemy, why you need some fat in your diet, and that [...]

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Total Bummer

May 12, 2009

As a surprise to my husband, I upgraded our cable TV last fall during football season. So along with ESPN and HGTV, we were suddenly getting Cartoon Network. And Henry discovered the world of commercials.
I tried to shield him, I really did. I only allowed him to watch a couple of select shows and attempted [...]

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Snack Solution

February 26, 2009

My preschooler, Henry, is a snack fanatic. For a while there, I actually had to call his lunch a “snack” to get him to eat it. He comes by it honestly: Family lore has it that as a child, I lost exactly seven Tupperware bowls around our neighborhood because (as one neighbor put it), [...]

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Get Real

February 16, 2009

Like a lot of moms, I often think about my life in before-kids and after-kids terms. Before kids, I grappled with dilemmas like “Could I get a healthier entree at the Italian or Thai place?” and “Spin class or yoga?” These days, it’s more “Would I burn more calories mowing the lawn or pushing the [...]

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